Bending Rollers

[Jon Nazareth]

I'm not having much success in forming my horsebox roof by hand and am seriously thinking of buying a set. I've spoken to George of GW Tools and we both think that his 'mini rollers' won't be man enough to curve 1mm thick aluminium. Does anyone know of or have had experience with any reasonably priced geared sets?

Jon

 

[Mike W]

If you have the space I would go for an industrial set like this
SHEET METAL SLIP ROLLS 18" INCH X 1' 1/4"
My own is about 3ft 6in long, cost half that amount and are useful for all sorts of things. Mounted on casters they live against the workshop wall, coming out only when needed.
Remember, the longer the bars the larger they need to be. And the larger they are the larger the flat area at the edge they can't get to. Other than that, bigger is better.
Mike

 

[unklian]

I bought a set from Chronos, which have a 12" capacity, I have not used them much yet but I suspect they would roll your ally OK .

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Ian

 

[markjj]

I have a set of these I have used them on 1.6mm aluminium with no problem 1mm and 1.6mm brass and steel sheet to.

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